James Oliver

Australia (residence) °1973
affiliation: MADA, Monash University
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James Oliver is a transdisciplinary academic with over 20 years of research and teaching experience. The foundations of his research and training are in the social sciences, and his expertise in creative practice is in the methodological considerations of a practice-as-research paradigm. His approach often incorporates ethnographic reflection on social and spatial practices in art, design, performance and film. His wider research interests range across de-colonial practices, public pedagogies and co-producing knowledge. He has also worked in the public sector as an arts development officer and parliamentary speech writer.

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  • Shuttling (2015) author(s): Mick Douglas, Beth Weinstein, James Oliver published in: Journal for Artistic Research
    This exposition investigates practice-as-research dynamics through a project titled ‘Shuttle’, from which emerged a practice of ‘shuttling’ as a layered modality for processing methodological artistic research. An international crew of artists, designers, and performance makers enquire into peer-to-peer creative practice development: practices unfolding through the dramaturgy of a twenty-day, four-thousand-mile mobile performance-research journey in the deserts of the North American south-west. We trace the dynamics of a practice-as-research milieu through a suite of artistic operations, performatively elaborated through this rich-media exposition. Through ‘shuttling’, we generate parafunctional performative spaces and temporalities. Our spatio-temporal and sensory mode of research – conditioned, co-created, and situated as a mobile laboratory – posits reflexivity as an embodied practice, as a medium of ‘shuttling’ with the dynamic emergence of creative research practices.
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